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The Taking
by Koontz, Dean
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0007841477
- ISBN 13
- 9780007841479
- Seller
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About This Item
London: Time Warner. Very Good. 2005. Reprint; First Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Some reading and cover creases, slight shelf wear, slightly cocked spine, paper lightly edge toned. ; First printing of HarperCollins mass market edition with number one, 2005. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. Cover design uncredited incorporating photographs by Gary Nolton/Getty Images. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; 432 pages; On the morning that will mark the end of the world they have known, Molly and Neil Sloan wake to find an eerily luminous downpour drenching their small Californian mountain town. TV pictures relay the news of extreme weather phenomena across the globe. As darkness falls a ghostly fog envelops the town. Their sense of isolation is complete as all communication with the outside world is lost. First TV and radio go dead, then the Internet and phone lines. Molly and Neil gather together with some neighbours, sensing an awful danger approaching with the night... .
Synopsis
The new thriller from Dean Koontz is a novel of stunning suspense and visceral terror as doomsday dawns.On the morning that will mark the end of the world they have known, Molly and Niel Sloan awaken to the drumbeat of rain. It has haunted their dreams through the night, and now they find an eerily luminous and silver downpour that drenches their small Californian mountain town.As hours pass they hear news of extreme weather phenomena across the globe. An obscuring fog turns once familiar streets into a ghostly labyrinth. By evening, the town has lost all communication with the outside world. First TV and radio go dead, then the Internet and phone lines. The young couple gathers together with some neighbours, sensing a threat they cannot identify or even imagine.The night brings strange noises, and mysterious lights drift among the trees. The rain diminishes with the dawn but a moody grey-purple twilight prevails. Within the misty gloom the small band will encounter something that reveals in a terrifying instant what is happening to the world – something that is hunting them with ruthless efficiency.Epic in scope, searingly intimate and immediate in its perspective, The Taking is a story of a strangely changed and changing world as apocalypse comes to Main Street.
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- Bookseller
- Books in Bulgaria
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 35976
- Title
- The Taking
- Author
- Koontz, Dean
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Reprint; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0007841477
- ISBN 13
- 9780007841479
- Publisher
- Time Warner
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- Mass Market PB, THRILLER, HORROR
- Bookseller catalogs
- Horror;
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